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The Guide to Creative and Sustainable Garden and Landscape Design

November

Featured
Arabella Lennox-Boyd -Gardens In My Life
Mapping the Landscapes
LI Webinar: Inclusive Landscapes and the Role of Street Furniture
Why So special? Iconic C20 Landscapes - Alton East and West
Challenges and Opportunities for Olmsted Parks
KMIS lecture: Murder most florid - the power of forensic botany
Common Ground
The Fight Against Extinction: Botany and Horticulture at Chester Zoo
Great Dixter Christmas Fair
Sense of Place: listening to the land
Practicing Landscape: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction
Mining the Animal
Beauty, Aesthetics and Care: Poetic Expressions of Landscape and Culture
Modern Japanese Gardens in Japan
Biodiversity in the Urban Environment
Landscape Institute Awards
Cleve West : The Artistry and Craftsmanship of Garden Design
Unforgettable Gardens - Boughton House
Cool Towns
Radical Ecology: Media Art and the Environment
An introduction to foraging Seaweed with Jason Byles
Online Lecture: William Wrighte's Grotesque Architecture of 1767
Plant Nurseries in England - Armstrongs Nursery of Hants
Tayshan Hayden-Smith - Grow2Know: The healing power of horticulture
Max Walters Memorial Lecture - "Looking to the Future: The Development of RHS Garden Bridgewater"
Garden Design Lecture: Dan Pearson - Tokachi Millenium Forest.
Teaching the Politics of Climate Change: Learning towards an Agenda
Notes on Western Attitudes to Chinese Gardens since 1860
Featured
Teaching the Politics of Climate Change: Learning towards an Agenda
Beyond a Green Carpet: Grasslands and climate breakdown
My Life with Plants - 60 years in Horticulture' by Peter Moore
2021 Horticulture Symposium: Restoring the Urban Jungle
Wonder in a World: Celebrating the life and work of Brenda Colvin
20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes
Are protected areas the future of conservation?
Natural flood management: an urban perspective
Collection research workshop
Stour Valley Park - Water Quality and The Power of Plants
Marianne North, Victorian botanist and painter
AI - Climate Change friend or foe?
Iconic C20 Landscapes - Golden Lane Estate
Futurescape
Plant Nurseries in England - Norwich Nurserymen
Sowing roots: Caribbean Garden Heritage in South London
Late Flowering Chrysanthemum Show
Plants & gardens in print: a history
FOLAR Symposium 2021: Festival of Britain 1951 and landscape design
Naturalistic Garden Design with Dan Pearson
For Peat's Sake - Peat Free Growing
Biosecurity Day
The Third Pole: How climate change is affecting the Tibetan Plateau
Important Women in Gardening (not just Jekyll!)
Featured
The Wonder of Plants' by Matthew Biggs
Unmaking the Ocean: A Law of the Sea for the Anthropocene
Immersive Landscapes with Andrea Cochran
Environment Knowledge-Exchange Talks
Roundtable discussion on Landscape, Nature and Environment
Unforgettable Gardens - Holdenby House
Going Batty - Bat Ecology and Conservation
Colour, texture and tone – Lucy Willcox
“The Pine Barrens” Film Screening
Iconic C20 Landscapes - Brunel Estate
Plants, Farms, Climate and the Biodiversity Crisis
KMIS lecture: Waterlilies, waders and watercolour
Getting the garden ready
The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture
Foraging for Regeneration at Great Dixter
Wildfibres: Clothing from Undomesticated Plants in the City
Bucks History Festival: Archaeology of Stowe Gardens
Open Day - Chlorophytum comosum
Landscapes of Slavery, Landscapes of Freedom: The African Diaspora and the American Built Environment
Therapeutic Landscapes of Japanese Gardens
Successfully Delivering Tree Planting - LISW / Arb Assoc Joint Site Visit
Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
Talking Clematis viticella, by Richard Hodson
The Venetian interest in Moorish Spain and its impact on sixteenth-century Italian gardens
21st-Century Interventions in the Monumental Landscape
The Wild Silence – Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, on the Meaning of Home
Standing with Giants at Hampton Court Palace
Stour Valley Park - Autumn Talk - Bringing Back the Beaver
London’s Changing Flora; climate change or changing habits?

October

Featured
Matthew Barney: Redoubt
Foxglove week
National Plant Collection of Crassula
National Plant Collection of Euphorbias
Spring Plant Fair: Helmingham Hall Gardens
A Virtual Garden Tour of Jardins de Métis-Reford Gardens, QC
Beuys' Acorns
Species and ecological processes – taxonomy and traits in the workings of nature
Heuchera, × Heucherella, Tiarella Open Weekend at Plantagogo
Behind-The-Scenes: A Curator's Perspective
Featured
Talk: Chinese Gardens - Design and Symbolism
Eternal Forest Deep Listening
Heritage and the Environment
Primula auricula - Theatre time!
Healing Relationships with the Natural World with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Remember the Future
Biodiversity and Cities
Unforgettable Gardens - Stories from Community Gardens
Armchair Walks Chapter 2 - Shared Ecologies
FOLAR talks - Women in Landscape Architecture: Brenda Colvin
LISW Webinar - Establishing and Maintaining Wildflowers Successfully
Artistic approaches to the echoes of fossil fuels
Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity in the Outdoors
Architectural Relations in a Climate Emergency
Online talk: Can biodiversity make children happy?
Other Voices in Garden History - Working Towards Inclusive Botanic Gardens
Subject/Object: The Birds festival ticket
Alan Gray and East Ruston Vicarage
Plant Gall Survey on Tooting Common
Global Small Talks Excellence in Design: Wild Contexts
Creating a Therapeutic Garden
Roman frontiers in their landscape settings' with David Breeze
Grey to Green: Panel Discussion
An Evening with Adam Frost - My Passion for Gardening
Sowing the Future: The Next Epoch Seed Library
Zsuzsanna Ihar, "Multispecies Mediations in a Post-Extractive Zone"
Munro Lecture: What scale is the Anthropocene? by Prof Anna L. Tsing
Perspectives on photography, architecture and the social landscape
Glorious Geums
Alternative to Crisis - Indigenous perspectives of the end of the world
Featured
Urban Tree Festival
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett - Of Sea - live reading
Edible, Easy Eco-Gardening with Alys Fowler
The elms of Nine Elms and beyond
RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show
Crisis & Hope. Landscape as Possibility
Jo Thompson talk at LCGD
Armchair Walks Chapter 1 - Landscape Healing
Fungus Amongus: common mushrooms in England
Concept To Completion: Andy Sturgeon
Art Down Under
FOLAR Talks - Women in Landscape Architecture: Susan Jellicoe
Yorkshire arboretum and its plant collections
Secret World of Plants
Other Voices in Garden History - Telling Tales about Trees
Dr. Jane Goodall in Conversation with Peter Wohlleben
Sketchbook Saturday
A Tree Walk in Kennington Park
A Broken Covenant: Sheffield’s WWI Living Memorials
Connection to Nature
The Earliest Botanic Gardens in the Middle East by Shahina Ghazanfar
Mass mindfulness - Jan van Kessel's nature tables
Wonderful wisteria
Seaspiracy Film Screening and discussion (online)
LAKE: The Landscape Architects Knowledge Exchange
Planting in a damp woodland - Tom Hoblyn
The Life of Lines with Tim Ingold
Re-Imagining A Greener City
Tokachi Millennium Forest: Dan Pearson + Midori Shintani
Unforgettable Gardens - The Wandsworth (un)Common Story
Featured
FOLAR Talks - Women in Landscape Architecture: Diana Armstrong Bell
Searching for London's lost rivers with Dr Tom Bolton
Rough Trade In-Conversations: Claire Ratinon, Sam Ayre and Zakiya Mckenzie
The Darker Side of Plants
LI Webinar: Managing Surface Water: Busting the Myths About SuDS
Other Voices in Garden History - Collecting with Lao Chao
Tree Walk – Battersea Park
Dawyck Botanic Garden' by Graham Stewart
Maggie’s at The Royal Marsden
Suzanne Simard and David Haskell - Finding the Mother Tree
A Year in the Life of a Great Fen Restoration Officer
Gardens of the Late 17th Century
Jonathan Drori, Sarah Raven and Tim Smit on the stories of plants
Floral Collectivism
Art Book Club: Land Art
Future Fungi - How fungi can feed the world and repair our ecosystem
PermEzone in East Africa
A Scottish Flora : A History of Scotland as told by its plants
Green Swamp Webinar
Unforgettable Gardens - London Squares
Planet Microbes
Environmental Justice: Creating Clean and Healthy Communities for All
Taxonomy workshop, with Barry Clarke
Cutting Up Bushes: The Art of Pearl Fryer
Essential: Public Health, Public Space, & the Design of Boston's Big Parks
Other Voices in Garden History - The Work of Ingrid Pollard
Gertrude Jekyll Garden – Vann in Godalming, Surrey
Plant Fair: Denbies Wine Estate
Specialist Plant Fair - Highgate, London
Mentha

September

Featured
Saving Denmans Garden
Circularity, Entropy, Ecological Conflicts and “Unburnable Fuels
Professor Corinne Fowler Inaugural Lecture
Soil Properties, Climate Change and Bloom Applications
Pedagogies for Future Practice
LI London AGM: Afoot Around London
Spring Botany Talk
Plant Diversity and Ecosystem Services on Abandoned Urban Lands
Reading Japanese Gardens: Learning To See Gardens As They Are
A Tale of Three Gardens – The Courts, Bodnant and Sissinghurst
Unforgettable Gardens, Wales - National Botanic Garden
Plumbing the Depths of a Bog
Peonies
Our wild cities - Biodiversity in London
All about trees! by Tony Kirkham
Hepworth Spring Fower Festival
LI Webinar: Planning for Long Term Urban Resilience
Lockdown gardens
Other Voices in Garden History - Learning from the Blackamoor
300 years of fieldwork: the plants of Cambridgeshire & the World in 1 room!
Garden Museum Spring Plant Fair
LISW AGM and Webinar - A Landscape Contractor's Perspective
Around the World in 80 Plants
Growing the next generation of Botanists
Michael Marder: 'Plant Habitats'
Freshkills Park, World’s Largest Landfill-to-Park
Public Art in a Post-Growth World
Featured
Celebrating Spring Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles) by David Ford
Blak Outside - Creative Resilience
Permaculture on Sark, by Helen Magell
The Garden Jungle - a talk by Dave Goulson
Botanical Taxonomy and the Naming of things
SciSpark 2021
Epimediums and Friends -  Sally Gregson
Hergest Croft Gardens
LI Webinar: Bespoke Playscapes
Ecology, Ancestral Healing, and Visual Art
Material Futures Symposium
Ecofeminism Lunch & Learn
Other Voices in Garden History - Historic Landscapes for All
Permeability and the Picturesque: British Country Houses at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
University of Oxford Botanic Garden - 400 years of gardening and botany
SGD Conference - Our Future Health: how to unlock the restorative power of nature
Rhododendron Week: A Spring Visit to the Sikkim Himalaya
Art History Lecture: Great Houses and their Gardens
Rhododendron Week: The Propagation and Cultivation of Rhododendrons
The story of Britain's three tree cathedrals
Rhododendron Week: The NBG, Kilmacurragh - A Family History
Hidden in plain sight – amazing semi-natural grasslands
Unforgettable Gardens, Wales - Plas Cadnant
Steve Edney: Plants for the Dry Garden
A Galician Journey: Camellias in Six Spanish Gardens on the Camellia Route
Plant Blindness: How to put plants back in the picture
Harriet Tubman: The Ultimate Outdoorswoman
Art and Craft of Garden Design
Shara Hughes in Conversation with Katy Hessel
Kim Wilkie - The English Landscape Revolution
Featured
Other Voices in Garden History - Guns and Roses
Gertrude Jekyll - 'My Adventure in Restoring her Inspiring Garden Art'
A Sense of Harmony: Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Rosemary Verey: her contribution & legacy to C20th gardening
Mount Congreve Gardens: an Irish Treasure, by Paddy Tobin
Flowers for the House: The Story of the Cutting Garden by Catherine Horwood
Walking Festival of Sound: Artist Walks / Barry Truax
The Landscape Art Legacy: Thomas Cole & The Hudson River School' Webinar
Shrubs of Distinction' by John Negus
An Evening with Joel Ashton - Wild About Gardens
The Story of the British Oak
The process behind a garden design project
Gorgeous geraniums
Rewild - Restore - Reconnect: Resilient, nature-based landscapes
Unforgettable Gardens, Wales
Olmsted's Parks, the Right of Assembly, and Black Lives Matter
Ken Smit‪h
The Active Landscape – The design tools to trigger lifelong active habits
Virtual Tour - Hampstead Garden Suburb: Arts Crafts and Idealism
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Film Screening
WFoS 2021 Opening Event & Performance / Transference
 Nature and Quran journaling with Sidrah Malik
How can we make space for nature? A live Q&A
Bringing nature in – biophilic and living design
A Feminist's Guide To Botany: Online Botanical Painting Session
April Fool’s Day Quiz at Garden Masterclass
Landscape Seminar: Kate Orff: ‘Toward an Urban Ecology’
Earth Day Symposium 2021: Climate Change
Dan Pearson and Midori Shintani: Tokachi Millennium Forest
Black Landscape Matter - Dr. Walter Hood
 
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